I guess I'm still confused... So they'd show up as different devices with time; each time you get notification that the keysym mapping for the keycodes have changed.
Why is there a problem? - Jim Alan Cox wrote: >> Ergo my question on whether anyone has ever actually seen in captivity a >> keyboard with more than 248 keys... > > I'm not sure that is a useful question. > > I have a collection of keyboards and remotes. All of them have different > functions above 255 which could be remapped. All of them are hot > pluggable. > > Trying to manage a mapping of all the devices randomly on the fly plugged > into a system and map them into a tiny space is rather more difficult > than you make out. > > If you had to map a set of devices, once, to a fixed mapping it wouldn't > be a big deal, but the world has moved on from that. > > Alan > > > _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg